I've never heard of it before, and after looking it up, it looks EXTREMELY bare-bones. I would go with Awesome or Openbox (seeing as how this is tiling/floating) out of popularity and extra features (compositing, on-the-fly reloading, multiple monitor support, etc.). If you want to try it, go ahead, but it looks to be either in heavy development or just a bare minimum.

Just got a free inspiron laptop with a pentium4 in it. Still deciding on the distro, I'm just excited I have something to test distros on and not have to worry about destroying my windows partition. First up is arch.

30th May 2011
Last edited by Dragory; 30th May 2011 at 01:50PM.
Post #5

Got the previous Postfix problem solved (solution in the problem post), but am having a different one. For some reason, I can't use receive mail (something related to TLS, apparently), as Postfix is unable to find a file called "smtpd_scache.db".
I did a find for this, and apparently it's not even present - where and how should this be generated?

Exact error from the log:

fatal: open database /var/lib/postfix/smtpd_scache.db: No such file or directory

Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my Macbook Pro after deciding I need a non-virtualised Linux machine.

Dropped a SandForce-based SSD and some extra memory in there before I started, and hot DAMN it starts up quickly. Are there any tweaks I can do to get even more oomph out of the SSD? First time I've used one with Linux.

Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my Macbook Pro after deciding I need a non-virtualised Linux machine.

Dropped a SandForce-based SSD and some extra memory in there before I started, and hot DAMN it starts up quickly. Are there any tweaks I can do to get even more oomph out of the SSD? First time I've used one with Linux.

I have Ubuntu 11.04, and I think it's messed up. Whenever I try to install a game, I get the message that there is no install CD inserted. There's nothing wrong with my CD-drive, so I assume the game is just looking in the wrong place for the CD?

I figured it out thanks to this thread. I didn't hit enter immediately after I input my admin password. I'm glad I figured it out though. This is what I love about the Linux kernel, and one of the main reasons why I'd ultimately like to develop for this shit.

Broadcom b43 or whatever its called. I got a free dell inspiron e1505 from uncle so I decided to use linux on it. I'd like to really give arch a go but the only thing holding me back is this network driver and setting everything up for the network wireless. Everything else is going smooth. I'd give more info on the nic card but I'm blanking on the command that gives all that info.

I fixed a weird issue today. Some guy on IRC was trying to `cd` to a folder in his home directory, and he couldn't. No errors, nothing. Tried changing permissions along with a million other things. For whatever reason, though, `cd ~/folder` didn't work, `cd /home/username/folder`, but `cd $HOME/folder` worked just fine.

As long as you aren't overwriting your Arch install it'll work exactly the same way as if you used a live CD.

I pretty much figured that after the half ass install I did last time (I quit just before compiling the kernel). Currently, I'm still in Arch with a shell chroot (I did go out for the day; so I'm actually about 5 hours into the install). I'm liking the method that Gentoo uses, but wow is emerge ever slow.

I've stopped the package update and removed the gentoo install. It's taking way too long to finish on this comp. Once I get something more powerful I'll pick it up again, but for now, I just don't have the time.